French Laughter Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier |
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| Author:
| Redfern, Walter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-152870-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Publisher: | Ebsco Publishing
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $66.45 |
Book Description:
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The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humour, Walter Redfern's book treats major French writers from the 18th to the 20th centuries as humorists, including Diderot, Rousseau, Sade, Huysmans, Flaubert, Beckett, and Tournier. He considers irony, hyperbole, wordplay, jokes, dialogue, humour as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism.
The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humour, Walter Redfern's book treats major French writers from the 18th to the 20th centuries as humorists, including Diderot, Rousseau, Sade, Huysmans, Flaubert, Beckett, and Tournier. He considers irony, hyperbole, wordplay, jokes, dialogue, humour as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism.